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As his superyacht Boardwalk docked in Venice as part of the ā€œFreedom 250 Coastal Diplomacy Italy initiativeā€ in July, billionaire US Ambassador Tilman J. Fertitta was greeted by protests. Fertitta

In MinaƧu, in the northern part of the Brazilian state of GoiƔs, the landscape bears the scars of an earlier mineral rush. For decades, the town depended on the Cana

The Western media manufactures consent for genocide. It normalizes Israel’s decades-long military occupation and apartheid. It erases Israel’s flagrant violations of international law. It perpetuates the fallacy of Israeli victimhood. It betrays, discredits and demonizes the

Some of the largest fossil fuel companies on Earth are disproportionately responsible for the water crisis in the American West, according to a first-of-its-kind study published Tuesday. From 2014 to

The ā€œcivil warā€ currently playing out in the Democratic Party is usually thought of as a battle between socialists and progressives on the one hand, and centrists on the other. Which it

Across the country, the electricity needs of data centers have been a major driver of the widespread resistance to speedy development. The rapid buildouts of data centers have raised concerns

Trump administration officials are claiming that talks between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Venezuelan government regarding control of the country’s oil fields will ultimately secure ā€œAmerica’s energy future for generations to comeā€ā€”but analysts on

After months of legal back-and-forth, a federal district court judge in Massachusetts lifted the administrative stay blocking the termination of Somalia’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation on August 14. The

Every Aug. 30, the world marks the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Beneath the official statements and solemn commemorations lies a stark, unsettling reality: the practice of

Are you a terrorist if you disarm the weapons of a terrorist? If you knew a terrorist in your town had weapons ready to use and you went and destroyed

If you want to understand the bleak future awaiting the occupied West Bank, do not look away. Just pay attention to the events in the small Palestinian town of Qusra,

Historically, the different lefts have been resistant to the ecological currents that have emerged since 1970 amid the first signs of the environmental crisis and varying criticisms of the developmentalist

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